Our weekly recap of veteran artists on the current British music charts. Chart highlights:Rod Stewart's latest covers album, Soulbook, debuts at number 10 on the British Album chart and is the highest charting album this week by a veteran artist. It's the highest Rod has been on the charts in three years. Last weeks leader, Bon Jovi, falls 2 to 13 while Michael Jackson's This is It goes 6 to...
Has anyone seen this yet? MY GOD! Possibly the coolest box set I've ever seen. Not only does this include TONS of totally rad rare/unreleased music memoribilia but this thing is an actual working guitar amp!For a killer look at (almost) everything the new box set includes check out this video!
AC/DC are the wealthiest Australians in show business - the rockers have topped a poll of the country's richest entertainers. The Back in Black hit-makers, who formed in Sydney in 1973, claimed the number one slot on the 2009 BRW Top 50 Entertainers list with their yearly income of $95 ...
The 2009 Classic Rock Roll Of Honour Awards were held last night (November 2nd) at London’s Park Lane Hotel. The star studded event saw Iggy Pop picking up awards alongside The Rolling Stones'' Ron Wood, late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, Cream's Ginger Baker and hard rockin' blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa.Wood was awarded for his contribution to The Rolling Stones as well as The Jeff Beck G.
I once read a great quote from AC/DC’s lead guitarist Angus Young. He was discussing how rock musicians seem to think that they can some how progress as musicians. He was referring to the movement from punk to new wave in the context of some punks getting mellower as they age. The quote, and [...]
This AC/DC grab bag is expensive, but you know you want it.With gross earnings topping an astronomical $105 million, to say that it's been a good year for AC/DC is a bit of an understatement. With a third generation discovering the band's music, they're now more popular than they've ever been, there's no venue too small for them to play, exorbitantly-priced shows are selling out left and right,...
The crowd of 14,000 is willing it to happen but in reality nobody wants to see Angus Young’s arse. The hope is there’ll be pyrotechnics when he finally bends over and drops his shorts. There would have been little surprise if a roman candle had shot out and light up…
If you can overlook the band's greedy business decisions, you'll be pleasantly surprised at how close they come to releasing an album that's on par with their classics. Especially if you cherry pick the ten best cuts.
When Michael Jackson released his "comeback" album earlier this decade, the first single from it - the tepid "You Rock My World" - managed to overshadow its crushing mediocrity by the sweet relief of hearing Jackson's familiar, glorious voice in material that hadn't yet been played to death. And in an example much more appropriate [...]
So, after an eight-year hiatus, AC/DC has released another album, and the most noteworthy fact about it is not the music it contains, but the manner in which it's being released: through Wal-Mart. The band presents this as a gesture of authenticity and dedication to their craft, a way of ensuring that their album is purchased in its entirety. Of course, the enormous financial advantage that sta...
A couple of weeks back I wrote about music biz guru Bob Lefsetz's anger over the fact that AC/DC's new album, Back in Black Part Nine Black Ice, is being released as a Wal-Mart exclusive. At that time, Lefsetz wrote "The joke is illegal acquisition will dwarf CD sales. Whatever is sold legitimately will [...]
I think it's officially safe to say that this crosses the line in terms of having wwwwaaaayyyy too much free time on one's hands… If you have Excel and would like to view this video in all its Microsoftian glory, you can download the original here. Thanks to MetalSucks Maniac Jesse for sending this in. -AR Related posts: FOR THOSE [...]
So the new AC/DC single, "Rock N' Roll Train," has been unleashed upon the world, and, shocking though it may be, it sounds more or less like every other song AC/DC has released since Back in Black (I tend to feel like the Bon Scott years had some more variance in them; I'm sure someone [...]~~
It made headlines recently when AC/DC guitarist Angus Young told the Telegraph that the band's music isn't on iTunes because "We don't make singles, we make albums." Other bands have expressed a similar attitude towards the single-friendly digital music store - Tool springs to mind - but in this day and age of iPods, creating [...]